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ISAIAH 52:13-57:21

Make Room for Hope

Sing, O childless woman,
    you who have never given birth!
Break into loud and joyful song, O Jerusalem,
    you who have never been in labor.
For the desolate woman now has more children
    than the woman who lives with her husband,”
    says the LORD.
Enlarge your house; build an addition.
    Spread out your home, and spare no expense!
For you will soon be bursting at the seams.
    Your descendants will occupy other nations
    and resettle the ruined cities.

Isaiah 54:1-3

My Takeaways

Something Old

My servant grew up in the LORD’s presence like a tender green shoot,
like a root in dry ground.
There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance,
nothing to attract us to him.
Isaiah 53:2

https://www.gotquestions.org/root-out-of-dry-ground.html

Something New

  • “A woman who was unable to bear children in the ancient world was believed to be under the punishment of deity, incapable of serving the function for which she was married and therefore liable to be rejected and abandoned by her husband. The word translated quote “youth” here refers to one who has not borne a child. Her shame is her barrenness. She is a widow because her husband has abandoned her (as most marriage contracts allowed) and therefore is the object of reproach with little hope of remarrying. She is thus stripped of short-term support by a husband and the support in her old age that could be expected from children.”
  • “As a mother who has been blessed with many children, Zion will need a spacious tent. The tents were made of hand-woven, three-feet-wide strips of dark goats’ hair. When more family members needed to be accommodated, additional strips could be sewn on. The cords that stretched from center poles to corner poles would have to be longer and the stakes made of stronger, thicker wood in order to hold the weight.”
  • IVP OT Bible Background Commentary
  • A barren, unmarried woman was a picture of hopelessness in the ancient world. But God used this exact picture to encourage those women–and all His people–that their current circumstances did not define them or their future.

Something to do

Make room for hope. Enlarge your tent in a step of faith.

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